How do I name the .bowerrc file?

Question

This MEAN-stack tutorial describes using Bower to install AngularJS in your public folder. One of the steps describes creating a file called ".bowerrc" in your test-app folder. However, Windows won't let you create a file without a name. How do I accomplish this on a Windows system?

Answer 1

on the command line (make sure to cd into your working directory), issue this command:

touch .bowerrc

This will also work for other files common to webdev like .htaccess and .gitignore

Note: If you haven't installed git bash for windows, you may not have support for the touch command. In that case (as mentioned in one of the comments here), the easiest way to accomplish this is via the cli with:

echo "" > .bowerrc

Answer 2

To create a file that starts with a "." in Windows, you just need to add a trailing ".".

So, simply name your file ".bowerrc." instead of ".bowerrc".

See https://superuser.com/questions/64471/create-rename-a-file-folder-that-begins-with-a-dot-in-windows for more information and more detailed solution if this doesn't work for you.

Answer 3

Another way to accomplish this is through Notepad++.

• Create the file in Notepad++
• Set the encoding to "Encoding in ANSI" (click "Encoding" in the menu bar)
• Save the file as .bowerrc (change the "Save as type:" to . which is one list item up from *.txt)